Within hours of DeGeneres’ announcement last month that she’d decided to bail after just one season on the show, a host of news sites reported Lopez had signed up.

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has said he “probably” will join the show as judge -- even as the fate of remaining “Idol” judges Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi remains unclear.

Amid reports that DioGuardi is set to get the axe, her father said she's upset with the way she’s been treated, according to E! News.

"Would you believe that she did not hear and still has not heard anything?” Joe DioGuardi told Capital Tonight. “She read it the way you did and I did. In fact, her disappointment is that's the way she's being treated, and she feels that's not proper."